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glossary


  • machicolation
    a gallery projecting on brackets and built on the outside of castle towers and walls,with openings in the floor through which to drop molten lead, boiling oil, and missiles.
  • Manor house
    home of the owner of a fief without license to build a castle with towers and keep.
  • merlon
    part of a battlement, the square "sawtooth" between crenels.
  • Meurtriere
    arrow loop, slit in battlement or wall to permit firing of arrows or for observation.
  • Moats
    ditch sometimes filled with water surrounding the castle.
  • Modillion
    small bracket, sometimes scrolled, sometimes clock-like, set at regular intervals in the soffit of a cornice.